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Old 07-03-2006, 11:43 PM
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sounds good, I may try without the mixer first. so you are saying spread the "mud" just like you would laying block. well if you are going this route why not pour a "wet" concrete footing, really wet concrete will almost level itself. now not yet figuring the costs but as a first thought this may work here, our frost line is 12'' footings for a 2 story home are only 18''. and then "hog out" the concrete with the mortar, just a thought,


another thought, this process would be hard to make work when laying a wall around a steep slope where you have several "step-ups" we lay our bottom course and when it runs in the dirt we level our base to line up with the 2nd one. so we would have alot of "downtime", but the old fashioned way would have to work here I guess!
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